Eduardo Rodrigues Scores a Double Knockout to Win Event #20: $1,500 MONSTER STACK NLH
Brazil’s Eduardo "Ghazbaran" Rodrigues knocked out two players on the final hand to win his first WSOP gold bracelet in Event #20: $1,500 MONSTER STACK NLH Freezeout. The 20th event of the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online bracelet series attracted 1,080 entrants for a $1,539,000 prize pool, with the winner receiving $212,815.
Italy’s Dario Sammartino came into Day 2 in second place on the leaderboard and remained a factor throughout the final table, eliminating Lee "SON_7" Jinhyang in eighth place, Romain "Flingue" Dours in sixth place, and Renato Valentim in fifth place before falling to Rodrigues in a three-way pot to finish second. This was Sammartino’s second final table of the series on GGPoker after finishing fifth in Event #18: $5,000 Short Deck Championship.
Event #20: $1,500 MONSTER STACK NLH Freezeout Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eduardo "Ghazbaran" Rodrigues | Brazil | $212,815 |
| 2 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | $159,588 |
| 3 | Jerecho “choleeek89” Caballero | South Korea | $119,674 |
| 4 | Thomas “zizelux” Harvey | New Zealand | $89,743 |
| 5 | Renato Valentim | Brazil | $67,278 |
| 6 | Romain "Flingue" Dours | France | $50,466 |
| 7 | Chris "AIR-JORDAN" Karambinis | United States | $37,844 |
| 8 | Lee "SON_7" Jinhyang | Hong Kong | $28,379 |
| 9 | Karolis "Internecik" Sereika | Lithuania | $21,281 |
Rodrigues came into the final table as the chip leader and maintained that position for most of the way until Sammartino’s final table run put him near the bottom. The late turning point came with four players left when Rodrigues made quads against Jerecho “choleeek89” Caballero and quickly followed that up with a pair of queens to move back into the chip lead.
After Thomas “zizelux” Harvey was knocked out in third place, Rodrigues extended the lead with a big pot by check-raising Callabero’s river bet to force the fold. The final two eliminations did not wait long as Rodrigues found the victory with ace-queen in a three-way final pot when a flopped ace defeated Sammartino and knocked out Caballero’s ace with the better kicker.
This concludes the live coverage of Event #20: $1,500 MONSTER STACK NLH on PokerNews. Be sure to tune in throughout this week for coverage of Event #23: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em on Tuesday August 31 and Event #24: $1,050 Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha on Thursday September 2.
to give Rodrigues the double elimination for the win with a pair of aces.
and Harvey shoved for 8,950,376. Caballero made the call.
and river 
couldn't improve for Harvey and he was out of the tournament in fourth place.
and Rodrigues checked again. Caballero continued for 1,800,000 and Rodrigues made another check-call. 
and Rodrigues checked again but couldn't get Caballero to fire once more. Rodrigues showed 
for quad fives and Caballero mucked 
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and Valentim checked. Sammartino led out for 590,000 and Valentim check-raised to 1,583,200. Sammartino made the flat call to see a turn 
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gave Sammartino an early hold on the hand and the 
to end the day for Karambinis in seventh place.
was no help to Sammartino, but the river 